Quordle today – hints and answers for Sunday April 21 (game #818)
You’ll need your wits to solve Quordle today because it’s quite a difficult task. On the plus side, the fact that it’s a Sunday means you should have plenty of time to think about it. Slow and steady wins the day.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about today’s Quordle is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Quordle today (game #818) – hint #1 – Vowels
How many different vowels are there in Quordle today?
• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 4*.
*Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), and not Y (which is sometimes also counted as a vowel).
Quordle today (game #818) – hint #2 – repeated letters
Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters?
• The number of Quordle answers with a repeated letter today is: 1.
Quordle today (game #818) – hint #3 – unusual letters
Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?
• No. None of the questions Q, Z, X or J appear in today’s Quordle answers.
Quordle today (game #818) – hint #4 – initial letters (1)
Do any of today’s Quordle puzzles start with the same letter?
• The number of the contemporary Quordle answers that start with the same letter are 2.
If you just want to know the answers at this stage, just scroll down. If you’re not ready yet, here’s another prompt to make it a lot easier:
Quordle today (game #818) – hint #5 – initial letters (2)
What letters do today’s Quordle answers start with?
• C
• F
• c
• M
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
Quordle today (game #818) – the answers
The answers to today’s Quordle, game #818, are…
I solved today’s Quordle with two guesses left, but that was much more due to my strategy of starting with three fixed starting words than to any intelligence on my part. Today’s race is really tough – and to be honest I was lucky.
To start with, I simply didn’t know one of the words, CAVIL. I consider myself a relatively erudite person, but I’ve simply never encountered it before; to the uninitiated, it means “the raising of trivial and frivolous objections,” according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
In addition, MANGA is also a bit of a nightmare word, with repeated ‘A’, one of which is at the end of a word. Moreover, FUNKY has a format that can be found regularly; FUNNY first of all, but also PUNKY and HUNKY and possibly LUCKY and PINKY.
Luckily for me, my starting words – STARE, DOILY, and PUNCH – gave me everything I needed to solve CASTE right away, and with FUNKY I made an educated guess, knowing that I could then play FUNNY if I was wrong. MANGA was more of a quest in the dark, but it worked, and that left CAVIL. This is where I was really poking around for a while, but I was used to a lot of letters by this time that this was the only word I could find that Quordle would accept, so I played it and was relived when all five letters turned green .
On the plus side, at least today’s series was pretty easy.
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Daily series today (game #818) – the answers
The answers to today’s Quordle Daily Sequence, game #818, are…
Quordle replies: The past 20
- Quordle #817, Saturday April 20: PUNCH, FORWARD, DOF, US
- Quordle #816, Friday April 19: WOMAN, WAXING, FLIRT, FLOAT
- Quordle #815, Thursday April 18: MATCH, APPLICABLE, BISON, CLINK
- Quordle #814, Wednesday April 17: COLON, EQUIPMENT, SUITE, BLURB
- Quordle #813, Tuesday April 16: METAL, MATEY, AGREE, DRIVE
- Quordle #812, Monday April 15: STINT, FAST, BRING, BUILD
- Quordle #811, Sunday April 14: WITTY, DADDY, SHORT, SNEAKY
- Quordle #810, Saturday April 13: COARSE, ALLOY, DIFFERENCE, TWIST
- Quordle #809, Friday April 12: GUILD, BREAKING, DROOP, BIGOT
- Quordle #808, Thursday April 11: COMIC, EVENT, EPOXY, GROSS
- Quordle #807, Wednesday April 10: LANCE, TAPIR, MURKIG, CHANNEL
- Quordle #806, Tuesday April 9: HERON, FIEND, TWINE, WORSE
- Quordle #805, Monday April 8: CRAZE, EQUIP, COLLECT, SHAND
- Quordle #804, Sunday April 7: BRING, WRING, LARVA, GOUGE
- Quordle #803, Saturday April 6: BLuff, tense, cruel, crooked
- Quordle #802, Friday April 5: ENEMY, FLACK, PAYER, UNSUITABLE
- Quordle #801, Thursday April 4: CLOSED, RACER, TABBY, VULNERABLE
- Quordle #800, Wednesday April 3: CARRY, SPEAK, LOSER, SUAVE
- Quordle #799, Tuesday April 2: APPLICABLE, STALK, SNOUT, ROD
- Quordle #798, Monday April 1: CUT, TIGHT, GLOW, WOVEN